IN RE COMPACT DISC MINIMUM ADVERTISED PRICE ANTITRUST LITIGATION

MDL No. 1361.

456 F.Supp.2d 131 (2006)

In re COMPACT DISC MINIMUM ADVERTISED PRICE ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Maine.

October 2, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Deep, Cohoes, NY, pro se.

Karin G. Pagnanelli, Mitchell, silberberg & Knupp, LLC, Los Angeles, CA, Terence J. Devine, David F. Kunz, Degraff, Foy Law Firm, Albany, NY, William J. Kayatta, Jr., Clifford Ruprecht, Pierce Atwood, Portland, ME, for Recording Industry Ass'n of America, Arista Records, Inc., Atlantic Recording Corp., Atlantic Rhino Ventures, Inc., Bad Boys Records, Arista Good Girls, Capitol Records, Inc. Elektra Entertainment Group, Inc., Hollywood Records, Inc., Interscope Records, Laface Records, Inc, London-Sire Records, Inc., Motown Record Co., Inc., RCA Records Label, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., UMG Recordings, Inc., Walt Disney Records America, Inc., Warner Bros, Records, In. WEA Intern., Inc., WEA Latina, Inc., Zomba Recording Corp.

Terence J. Devine, David F. Kunz, Degraff, Foy Law Firm, Albany, NY, Clifford Ruprecht, Pierce Atwood, Portland, ME, Thomas G. Hentoff, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, Katherine B. Forrest, Cravath, Swain & Moore, LLP, New York, NY, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., New Line Cinema Corp., Paramount Pictures Corp., Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, Twentieth Century Fox Movie Corp.

Andrew C. Rose, Nicon, Peabody, LLP, Albany, NY, Joseph H. Groff, III, Brendan P. Rielly, Jensen, Baird, Gardner & Henry, Portland, ME, for Transworld Entertainment Corp.

Charles A. Harvey, Jr., Robert S. Frank, Harvey & Frank, Portland, ME, for David Boies, Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Straus & Boies, LLP.


ORDER ON PENDING MOTIONS

HORNBY, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The Multidistrict Litigation Panel transferred these two lawsuits here because of the pendency of MDL No. 1361 (In re Compact Disc Litigation). All defendants have moved to dismiss both complaints.

I GRANT the motions to dismiss all the federal claims for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted...

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